Platform teams spend most of their time processing repetitive infrastructure requests instead of building new features. This post explains how we used Crossplane to create self-service APIs for application infrastructure, eliminating tickets for S3 buckets, databases, and caches while maintaining compliance and control. The result: developers provision their own resources in minutes, and platform engineers focus on work that creates actual value.
Platform teams spend most of their time processing repetitive infrastructure requests instead of building new features. This post explains how we used Crossplane to create self-service APIs for application infrastructure, eliminating tickets for S3 buckets, databases, and caches while maintaining compliance and control. The result: developers provision their own resources in minutes, and platform engineers focus on work that creates actual value.
By 2026, 80% of large software organizations will have platform teams, and for good reason. This article explains why platform engineering and Kubernetes have moved from technical concerns to boardroom priorities, directly impacting time-to-market, cost efficiency, and competitive advantage. Learn how startups and scaleups can leverage platform engineering for measurable business outcomes.
Docker Hub's new rate limits and Upbound's Crossplane package policy put production clusters at risk. Here is how we used AWS ECR pull-through caches and Google Artifact Registry remote repositories as registry proxies, so image pulls come from inside your own cloud - and why that also keeps running when a registry goes down.
Cloud is quickly becoming a de facto practice for running IT workloads. Every company has its own reasons for migrating - or challenges holding them back. Either way, you may find yourself in a situation where you see the cloud as an attractive solution and want to learn how to ...
Well-executed cloud cost monitoring is a mandatory goal for all modern IT companies that have transitioned their business to a cloud-based strategy. The challenges of executing cloud cost control are also one of the main reasons why companies choose to delay modernising their business practices and embracing cloud technologies.
The expectations for the speed of software development have risen considerably since the 1980s. Our audience no longer accepts a year of waiting for the next software version, and as developers we need to keep up with this pace. The audience is expecting us to deliver fast and often. To meet these expectations, we need to remove waste and speed up the development process. And...
The well-architected review is a specific process that compares your actual practices with the AWS well-architected framework. This framework is a collection of wisdom based on Amazon’s experience and learnings that they’ve acquired from years of running workloads in the cloud. It consists of six topics of cloud application security best practices. These topics are called pillars, and...
Infrastructure as code is an operations practice that lets system administrators and DevOps experts make their configurations reusable. All kinds of management - whether it is infrastructure configuration management or any other type of administration - can be done in two different ways.
Success in IT usually means a company has hit a bullseye by solving a specific pain point for its customers. The proven way for companies to become product leaders in their space is by adopting a customer-centric mindset and exercising agile practices throughout the whole organisation. With technology increasingly intersecting ...
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